ZXpand+ manual now online

[sirmorris]

I'm trying something different for the new boy's manual

I'm hosting the manual in wiki form over at GitHub. It will live alongside example code and such things as the PCB design for the Turbo-AY board and midi breakout connector..!

It would be great if you fine peeps would have a gander and offer any criticism, especially any areas which may need inclusion or elucidation

Loveyoubye.

C

[nollkolltroll]

Had a quick read-through, and it looks really good!
I especially like that it is all on a single page, makes it easy to save to local storage. I'll return some specific comments about updates to the content.

[sirmorris]

Thanks, that's exactly what I want and need! Adam - do you use GitHub or similar? I'm wondering if I could host your demo programs in some form? If you're a GH user I can add you as a collaborator.

[Paul]

Looks really good.
But how can I access GitHub via ZXPand?


Does GitHub offer a non encrypted view that I could access with ZeddyNet?

Kind regards Paul

[PokeMon]

You can use ZEDIT.P to read TFM from SD Card directly on your underlying hardware.

[siggi]

But only if
- TFM is plain ASCII text, formated in MAC format (line terminated by only <CR>)
- fits into the remaining ram above 32k (8k or 16K, depending on CONFIG)
and is terminated by a null-char

But probably ZEDIT will not run on ZxPand, because it has its stack next to 64K, where ZxPand does not have ram

So a non-encrypted pure(*) HTML-file, which could be read by ZeddyFox, would be the better solution

Siggi

(*): no Java, Java script and other embedded nonsense. Except BASIC-programs

[PokeMon]

Why not make the manual a simple .p file showing the instructions with several PRINT statements per screen and some INKEY$ action to handle scrolling. If it is not too much text it could be an option (nollkolltroll talked about one page not specifying page size and font size by the way ).

[Paul]

Karl, do you understand the theory of an ONLINE-Manual?

[PokeMon]

I understand first, that an online manual is mainly a theory.
What helps an online manual which is not updated regularly ?
I think the team behind Charly is not so big for adding weekly new features and document them.

[Paul]

Well, I have some documents from your team (not that much bigger i suppose) that are outdated and were never updated although new versions are available.